Survival in the Past -- Survival in the Future? Past and Present Challenges of Community-based Management of Alpine Pastures in the Canton Grabünden, Switzerland

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Type:	Conference Paper
Author:	Landolt, Gabriela
Conference:	Design and Dynamics of Institutions for Collective Action: A Tribute to Prof. Elinor Ostrom, Second Thematic Conference of the IASC
Location:	Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Conf. Date:	29 November - 1 December
Date:	2012
URI:	https://hdl.handle.net/10535/8631
Sector:	Land Tenure & Use Social Organization
Region:	Europe
Subject(s):	institutional change community common pool resources resource management pastoralism land tenure and use
Abstract:	"Community-based and common property institutions are able to sustainably use common pool resources. In Switzerland, this insight goes back to the research of Robert Netting (1981), who described the historical development of the common property resource (CPR)institutions in Törbel and their sustainable adaptation to ecological and social conditions. The case study of the mountain village Sumvitg in the canton Graubünden presented in this paper illustrates another case of sustainable CPR regime that managed to adapt to various disturbances over time."

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